Sunday, 8 February 2015

Is Elvis Alive?

Stop laughing!... I was talking to somebody the other day
and he made it clear he took a very dim view of conspiracy theories. He gave a
little titter and said in a mocking tone: "So, you think Elvis is still
alive, right?" Actually I don't believe all conspiracy theories; the moon
is not an alien space station, the Earth is not hollow and Lewis Hamilton is
not Barrack Obama's lovechild. I had no
doubt, note the pluperfect tense, that Elvis Presley was as dead as the dodo; I
still have few, but not as few as I used to. The great singer-songwriter who
was nicknamed "the King" died at his home on the 16th of August 1977. He was found
unresponsive on the bathroom floor after having suffered a heart attack while
sitting on the toilet; a book was lying beside him that he'd been reading at
the time. He was just forty-two years old. His health had been deteriorating
after his extremely acrimonious divorce a few years earlier, which had been a
media sensation. News reports, TV programmes and books had been appearing
revealing secret aspects of his personal life and Elvis found this very
difficult to deal with. He took all kinds of drugs and put on a huge amount of
weight. He doggedly continued performing even when he could hardly stand on the
stage due to the psychological and physical conditions he had developed. Like
many great figures in the arts, Elvis suffered terrible emotional pain his
whole life. He had originally had a twin brother who had died shortly before
their birth; and apparently this kind of experience can affect one's entire
life and Elvis dedicated part of the grounds of his home, Graceland
in Memphis, TennesseeUSA
as a memorial garden to the twin brother he never grew up with. Therefore the
official story of his death is perfectly plausible.

Yet ever since his death was announced a dedicated number of
people have refused to believe that Elvis Presley died and instead claim that
he's still alive. He either faked his own death or was forced to take on a new
identity. There is a traditional website on this subject, see: http://www.elvis-is-alive.com/, but
of course nowadays most of their activity centres around their Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/evidenceelvispresleyisalive.
A psychologist would of course dismiss everything they do as simple denial.
This tendency consists almost entirely of Elvis' fans and they can't face the
fact that he's dead because they loved him so much. However regular
HPANWO-readers already know how little I think of psychologists. Could it be
possible? Well, firstly I certainly don't think Elvis faked his own death
himself. If he had he would have made it a different death; nobody famous wants
their last moments to be forever remembered as sitting on the bog reading a
book. It would have been something dramatic and glamourous like maybe a plane
crash or driving a car over a cliff. Or suicide like the comedy character Reginald
Perrin. If he were somehow brainwashed or otherwise forced to take on a new
identity against his will then why? No idea. Yet these questions have not fazed
those who maintain that Elvis lives to this day. This week it would have been
Elvis' 80th birthday, and the Facebook group has been inundated with e-cards in
the hope that maybe somewhere the King is sitting there reading them, see: http://www.newsweek.com/his-80th-birthday-revisiting-conspiracies-have-kept-elvis-presley-alive-297968.
People still write in to announce that they've seen Elvis in public places,
sitting in a diner or stepping onto a train. They question the validity of
Elvis' funeral and whether another body wasn't substituted for the man they
thought they were burying. These claims are rather spurious, yet occasionally a
more substantive story comes to light. I was on the phone to a friend of mine
the other day and he told me that it had been reported on American television
that there was been a road traffic accident in which an elderly man had been
killed who'd be positively identified as Elvis Presley. There are no online
references for what he said, but I did find this: http://empirenews.net/shocking-dna-results-revealed-body-of-elderly-homeless-man-identified-as-elvis-presley/.
Obviously both stories can't be true; Elvis can only die once. However if
Presley was involved with the FBI to what extent did this involvement go. I am
not convinced by this idea at all; sadly I think Elvis Presley is dead and he
died the way history tells us he did. Personally I think there's far more
evidence for another case which is an entirely opposite situation in the music
world, that a celebrity rock and roll star is thought to be alive when he is in
fact dead, see: http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/is-paul-mccartney-dead.html.

4 comments:

mitch
said...

Of all the myriad Elvis theories, this seems plausible:

"The motive is simple. Elvis potentially had the means (money) and the popularity to convince millions of his disbelief in the official JFK assassination story ”He was a superstar with an international following, and he was obsessed with the assassinations of President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. He was so obsessed that he watched the Zapruder film for hours at a time.” (Salvador Astucia, Author of "Opium Lords - Israel, The Golden Triangle and the Kennedy Assassination")

Elvis’s death happened the same time the House Select Committee was reinvestigating the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King. And, three months later a pivotal FBI official -- William Sullivan -- was shot. These are very suspicious circumstances. Conspiracy theory is and always will be more of an ‘art’ than an exact science. None of this is as outlandish as some seem to believe. The world’s most popular rockstar died, during a time when public personas were getting waxed – left and right.http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread237889/pg1

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